Ten helmets tested by researchers reduced the likelihood of traumatic brain injury by an average of 20 percent compared with no helmet in a simulation
using crash test dummies.
Thousands of cycling accidents
using crash test dummies and humans were re-enacted and analyzed to ensure that the airbag inside the collar deploys when it should.
The researchers
used a crash test dummy head and neck to simulate impact.
The «abhorrent» dating tactics of the male redback spider: Scientists find they target immature females who haven't yet learnt to eat them after mating Car companies
use crash test dummies when they want to figure out how to make their vehicles safer.
Not exact matches
When you install the car seat
using methods not outlined in the instruction manual, you are, in essence,
using your child as the
crash test dummy.
Something that would greatly benefit car seat research was first
used in 1949, a
crash test dummy.
Thibault points to a 2003 study in the Journal of Neurosurgery that
used lifelike infant dolls with
crash test dummy accelerometers inside their heads.
He thinks one answer may be for safety authorities to
use heavier
crash -
test dummies when certifying cars as safe to drive.
The 2003 book by Mary Roach takes a sweeping look at everything from cadaver farms, where donated bodies rot slowly outside in the name of science, to the
use of human bodies as
crash -
test dummies.
The upgraded ratings system evaluates side pole
crash testing and
crash prevention - technologies and
uses female
crash test dummies for the first time.
The
dummies used in the
crash tests roughly correspond with a 18 - month - old and a three - year - old — these sit in child restraints on the back seat.
So far, no single
dummy is sufficiently humanlike to be
used in all
crash tests.
Analysis of the movement and contact points of the
dummies» heads during the side impact
crash test is
used to assess this aspect of protection.
SIDs
used in government
crash tests aren't very sophisticated
dummies.
The newly introduced side - pole
crash test exclusively
uses the small female
crash dummy in a front seating position.
Another reason is that the frontal
crash dummy IIHS
uses in the small overlap
test isn't good at measuring risks from lateral forces.
Using crash -
test dummies, the agency measures probable head, chest and leg injuries to passengers in the vehicles.
Today, we
test for 29 different
crash conditions
using an entire family of
dummies.
This one that you are about to see is all about the
crash test dummies that are
used in the General Motors
testing facility.
Engineers
use footage from cameras to assess how
dummies move during
crash tests.
«Inside IIHS: Side
testing» shows the Institute's moving deformable side impact
crash test barrier and the
dummies used in the side
test, and explains the evolution of side
crash protection.
IIHS agrees that
crash tests should
use the most biofidelic
dummies available but notes that NHTSA hasn't supplied any comparative data to show that THOR, the modified Hybrid III 5th percentile female and the WorldSID 50th percentile male it proposes to
use would provide more benefits and drive better vehicle designs than the
dummies currently
used.
By looking at
crash tests using different
dummy positions, the effect of optimising occupants» seating position before the start of the impact could then be determined.
This is the first time IIHS has
tested SUV and pickup seats
using a
dummy that can measure forces on the neck during a simulated rear - end
crash.
Because
crash test dummies aren't
used, the static
test can't directly provide key information about injury risk to occupants involved in real - world rollover
crashes.
Previous installments have focused on other IIHS
tests,
crash test dummies, the propulsion system
used to power
crash tests and the Institute's booster seat rating program.
In 1950, a
dummy was created by Samuel W. Alderson of the Alderson Research Labs and was
used to perform
crash tests for both aircraft and motor vehicles.
And, for the first time, it will
use female
crash test dummies to simulate
crash scenarios involving women, not just men.
The Center for Pet Safety certifies products based on safety
testing using animal
crash test dummies.
A pickup truck is
used here, but the tech — called the Beam physics system — can be
used with anything, including «cars, trucks, planes, boats, trains, cranes, tanks, helicopters, and even destructible map objects and
crash test dummies.»
Proper
use of gas and clean coal generation will be essential until renewables and other forms of generation are economical, but South Australia's ideological crusade (which has turned the state into the world's electricity
crash test dummy, as I read somewhere) has meant that the lights will continue to go out during periods of high demand, with or without Elon Musk's Duracell.
A new
crash test dummy is hitting the market and it's being
used to help keep your child safe in the event of a car accident in Chicago and elsewhere.